Post by Pyrrha Drakos on Sept 27, 2015 8:07:02 GMT
"Exactly!" Pyrrha nodded, that same temper Hawke was worried about evaporated as quickly as it came. The secret was just rolling with it. Girls, or people in general, who were like Pyrrha just tended to keep being bothered by something for awhile, but only while their minds were on it. "It's not like Lady Belfyire makes my every decision. She has certain laws and traditions in place, but that's not a bad thing, you know." Pyrrha yelped again when Bloo tugged on her pigtail again, this time to try and get her off the subject. "Ow, you dumb gecko! I haven't been going on that long about it!" Bloo seemed to indicate that she'd ranted plenty. She'd kind of had this argument with the air as Bloo listened a dozen times in the past week.
"Fine! Enough about me we'll just talk about you." Pyrrha turned her gaze back to Hawke, an annoyed frown on her face for a moment. "Since *someone* is tired of me not talking about them, I guess I could tell you a bit about us. It's another thing people always seem curious about but never ask. See, Bloo was hatched when I was four. I was there when it happened and we were bonded, cause that's how drakes work. We're like siblings or something and I named him and helped raise him and then when he was old enough we became partners." Pyrrha scratched Bloo's head. "I don't know what either of us would do if we were seperated for very long. It's kind of like we're part of each other after so long."
Last Edit: Sept 27, 2015 8:09:24 GMT by Pyrrha Drakos
"Huh..." Hawke tilted his head and frowned for a moment. Well... that was a misunderstanding on his part. It's a good thing he didn't actually tell her to get a leash for him! He inserted sarcastic mental laughter as his previous self restraint saved him. "Well, that's a deeper relationship than I thought. When I first saw you two, he seemed more like a fairly intelligent pet. No offense... But that's the impression you gave off."
"But at least you look happy," He commented idly as he focused in on Bloo. He spent some time taking in details and such. He was able to see better just how close they were and stuff. Not to mention that Bloo looked pretty cool. Even when he was younger, Hawke had loved the stories about dragons. He wouldn't say it now but Bloo being there was a high point for Hawke.
"So what's he eat anyway?" Hawke said as they finally reached the store. He pushed the door open and held it for Pyrrha out of habit more than anything. "I'm assuming meat of some kind, but that's my best guess."
Post by Pyrrha Drakos on Sept 27, 2015 18:30:35 GMT
"I've never had a pet," Pyrrha looked a bit confused at the concept of Bloo being a pet, but for the moment she wasn't going to take that statement the wrong way, partially because he'd at least stated he meant no offense by it. "I don't even know what having one is like, cause like, I was always too busy with my education and my training and stuff. Bloo helped a lot though. I had my brothers but I'm almost closer to him than them."
Pyrrha looked at Bloo, who let out a low growl that sounded kind of like he had some sort of contribution to the conversation. "This guy eats meat yeah. And just about anything else you put in front of him at least once." She stuck her tongue out at Bloo, who nipped at it but didn't actually bite her tongue. "Oh, we both apparently rather like that pizza stuff you Fiorians like so much."
Pyrrha's mood was strangely imrpoving as they walked and talked. It was kind of nice to get to just ramble about her homeland and her companion and stuff. She did a spin around and walked backwards a few steps, glancing at Hawke who was now behind her... or technically in front of her now. "You might think not being able to understand what he's saying exactly would get in the way, but after all this time I'm pretty good at getting the right impression at least, and he obviously understands everything I say."
"I see..." Hawke said with a small nod. Bloo was family, and she'd apparently never had pets before. So it would be easy to not see how it looked to others who didn't understand. Then he smiled. "Pizza is good. easily one of the best foods in Fiore. Just because you can change it and it'll taste completely different, but still be the same food."
"Which is pretty smart for such a small creature," Hawke nodded in response as he turned to look around the store. He needed chocolate for three... Since he felt like grabbing something for Pyrrha. He was still riding that wonderful feeling and she was being easy to talk to. Something that might not last he was sure, but he wanted to get her something for it anyway. "Most creature's Bloo's size aren't nearly as inteligent. I'm sure you've seen those little yapper dogs some people have around here..."
"Is there something you'd like to ask me?" He asked trying to make it less just all about them now that he was self concious about it. He had a small bag of bite sized chocolate for the girl, a bar for himself... Maybe a bar would be good for Pyrrha too. Eh, he'd do that. He couldn't exactly afford something fancier if he wanted to stay in Crocus for awhile.
Post by Pyrrha Drakos on Sept 27, 2015 19:03:37 GMT
"Yapper dogs?" Pyrrha blinked and adopted a thoughtful expression. Oh! "Oh you mean those tiny stupid dogs that bark at everything," Pyrrha nodded. 'Well, you know, they're dogs and not drakes so I guess it makes sense. Well actually not all types of Drakes are as smart as Bloo either. See crystal drakes are small but they're every bit as smart as people. Smarter than some!" Bloo hopped off of her shoulder to start sniffing around the chocolates, but Pyrrha didn't pay him much mind.
"Something I want to ask you?" Pyrrha turned back around to look at him; she'd been staring at a few of the chocolates, herself. "Like what? Like why you have a girly ponytail?" she stuck her tongue out, but she was only teasing. "I dunno. You never say anything about yourself, Blondie. I know it can't just be modesty. Are you sure you're not the evil spy you were talking about?"
"He's that smart huh?" He asked. It made sense honestly. Though Bloo seemed every bit as inexperienced as Pyrrha did. Which also made sense. It was hard to wrap his mind around it all at once, since Bloo was the first drake of any kind he'd ever seen with his own eyes. But he enjoyed learning new things. And if he could befriend Bloo...
"I get that a lot actually," Hawke rolled his eyes and held back a sarcastic remark. He looked over at Bloo, if only to make sure the little guy didn't decide to start chowing down. But even if he did, Pyrrha was set for a long time... And he doubted she'd blown all her money right away. "My sister used to braid her hair. And I like my hair longer, so she started braiding mine too. I keep doing it as a way to remember her."
"I'm no super spy," He shrugged that comment off with another eye roll. He finished grabbing what he was getting and then headed for the counter to pay for things. "My parents expected me to grow up and do what they did. I didn't want to so I ran away. They still send people to find me and bring me back, but I always slip by them. I've found my own way, doing what I love most in the process."
Post by Pyrrha Drakos on Sept 28, 2015 5:52:25 GMT
"And what you love most must be stumbling onto cute dracoknights and sending the weirdest mixed signals about whether you're a jerk or not," Pyrrha decided. She wasn't watching Bloo, but fortunately it seemed the drake wasn't a fan of chocolates. He came back to Pyrrha after a moment, sticking around her feet but always avoiding being stepped on even when she paid zero attention to his location. "I mean, one day you help with lunch then go and be a jerk about supposedly saving me when I'm already cranky, the next you're all I heal orphan's faces and then buy little girls treats." She looked back at him as she sat down a fancy looking box of assorted chocolates - the kind one imagined when thinking of getting a box of chocolates from a boyfriend. "What's up with that?"
Pyrrha bent down and picked up Bloo, letting him drape over her arm lazily, his little wings tucked to the sides. Hawke was certainly bad at giving details, and he was just as bad at tradition, whatever that tradition was. Pyrrha wasn't the most traditional of Dracoknights, herself, but she'd still gladly ended up one all the same. "So are you people just like, made of money or something? My home doesn't have nearly as many shops full of cute clothes or romantic looking chocolates. It's all family things, ma and pa sort of stuff, you know? Well, okay not all the places... but back home I didn't visit many shops because that's just not what nobles do... I guess now that I think of it my views on home are a little skewed, huh?" She picked at her own blouse, grinning at what she considered to be one of the cuter outfits she'd recently come to own. "By you people I mean Fiorians in general."
Last Edit: Sept 28, 2015 5:54:08 GMT by Pyrrha Drakos
"For starters... you're the first Dracoknight I've met," He countered with a frown. He looked at her, but still kept an eye on Bloo. The little drake was just that: Little. And he didn't want to step on him. That would be bad on more than just personal code things like not causing needless harm. "And second, I've always been sarcastic. Even as a kid. It's just part of who I am."
"As for the whole healing orphan's faces, I did do that once," He commented with a shrug. He only paused long enough to pay for the chocolate before turning back to her. Bloo was now catting on her arm. It was kind of adorable in his opinion. "I don't often think much of it. People end up happy, I'm not continuing a cycle of needless bloodshed, and I occasionally make some money off of it so I can remain independent. It's good work but... nothing to really write home about."
"I don't even pretend to understand how money truly works or how it's generated," Hawke shrugged with a more helpless look that somehow managed to carry a hint of sarcastic glee to it. With the bags in hand he began walking back out of the store. He couldn't tell what truly made the whole draping Bloo thing adorable. Was it her outfit or just the fact that he thought he was a cat for now? He needed to stop thinking about it. "I understand I require Jewels to buy food, clothes, and warm bed and bath. And that's about it."
Post by Pyrrha Drakos on Sept 28, 2015 13:35:29 GMT
"I didn't say you didn't pick up weird hobbies fast, Blondie," Pyrrha pointed out to Hawke as he bought the chocolates. Pyrrha paid no mind to the clerk, who took the time to wink at Hawke - apparently she was making assumptions about the chocolate despite their conversation, but she didn't actually speak up for Pyrrha to hear. She just blinked at the fact that, apparently, Hawke had in fact healed an orphan's face. "Okay you gotta stop that. I have no idea if you're serious or not."
Pyrrha followed Hawke out of the store, Bloo already starting to doze off as he got bored with their conversation for the moment; drakes didn't really have or need the attention span humans did a lot of the time, especially considering he couldn't contribute to a conversation about orhpans or hobbies.
Hawke claimed he had no idea how money worked beyond the money that was thrown into his lap. Was that even possible? Pyrrha was pretty sure she knew more and she was the one who used to have a bag of gold just sitting in her pack. "Don't people just trade money for things, and nobles get some sent to them for doing the nobley things? Whatever those are in this country... making people paranoid about foreigners or something?" Pyrrha looked a bit thoughtful for a moment. "Also, what's up with calling your currency jewels? You realize you use the same term for the things that you wear on your fingers and stuff?"
"But that's part of the fun," Hawke said innocently. There was a small grin playing at his face as the two walked out. He ignored the wink and just kept going. Such assumptions were made fairly often if he so much as said hi to a girl his own age. And it wasn't as bothersome because he didn't secretly like her. After all, it was hard to secretly like someone you didn't know. "But in this case I am serious. Someone tried to burn down the orphanage this boy was at. And in the process of protecting his home and the other orphans, one of them had their cheek sliced open. So after helping protect the orphanage, I healed his wounds. Including his face."
"Nobility doesn't really have a place in Fiore anymore," Hawke said shrugging as they went. Bloo was full on cat mode, sleeping on Pyrrha's arm peacefully. Quite a feat since Crocus was a bigger city. He turned his attention to the castle in town, of which only the top could be seen from where they were at.
"As you've probably heard, Fiore used to be a kingdom," Hawke explained keeping it brief. She could as questions if she was curious and he wasn't sure how much she'd heard on her travels. It was a story he was told with much shame by his father He still didn't understand why people couldn't move on. There was still a bright future to be had out there. "When Valland made their first invasion attempt, they managed to kill him and most of the royal family."
"In the resulting political restructuring, people decided having a few noble families run things wasn't a good idea," Hawke continued keeping a slow pace. "Many of the families lost their political power, seemingly overnight. But they still had wealth and have tried to maintain influence through such wealth. Not all of them have been successful though."
"Also, it wasn't my idea to name the currency Jewels," He said frowning at her slightly. "And I can't change it either.
Post by Pyrrha Drakos on Sept 28, 2015 18:42:35 GMT
Pyrrha hummed while Hawke covered the large amount of things she'd rambled about. She was listening, but her attention span wasn't the longest, so she was kind of multitasking at the moment. At least until he stopped. "Well maybe you should petition or something. This is a democrathingy after all," she nodded to herself. "I'm thinking you should call the mony grunkles. Because the paper crinkles but that just sounds boring, and grunkles sounds like it. I have forty-seven grunkles." she nodded, chuckling to herself.
She didn't really expect it, nor did she care, but Hawke reacted interestingly to her teasing. As much as he thought he was a jokester, he certainly took her questions about jewels seriously. Her good mood just told her to tease him a bit more. Bloo stirred enough to make a grunt to show his own amusement, flexing his claws as he laid there. "Also grunkle is probably a great name to call someone who's being a jerk. Man that'd serve two purposes pretty often here."
"I wish I had the freedom democracy brings," He said rolling his eyes. Hawke really only ever was able to pretend he was free, and he knew it. He made it sound like a joke though. He didn't really want her getting caught up in his own mess. He'd be the one to sort it out when he finally rann out of places to run to.
"That just makes it sound like a terrible disease," Hawke shook his head slowly. Grunkles was just weird to say to begin with. Then given that she basically wanted to call him a Grunkle... He took on a mock serious tone as if he was a doctor addressing a patient. "I'm sorry ma'am. You have a bad case of the Grunkles. It's not contagious, but it is going to leave you grunkled for life."
"Puns aside though," Hawke shrugged with a goofy grin. He pointed at Bloo and continued. "Bloo sounds like a better currency name. That'll be twenty Bloos. It sounds so much better than Grunkles. And doesn't sound like you're trading people as a currency.
Post by Pyrrha Drakos on Sept 29, 2015 2:05:59 GMT
Pyrrha had to think about it for a moment, but in the end, Hawke was kind of right. Grunkle did sound like a disease. She stuck out her tongue at the thought of what grunkles could possibly be, making a face to go with it. Bloo mimicked her tongue gesture, though he couldn't mimic her face in the same way. "Ugh, no to the grunkle then!" she shook her head. "And you're right for once. A Bloo sounds like a great currency. It could have little crystal drakes on the coins," she nodded to herself, making a circle with her fingers and looking at Bloo through them.
Pyrrha giggled as Bloo actually stood up enough to give her his 'good side' for her framing. "You're weird." The drake made a rather 'nuh uh' like noise before climbing up to her shoulder where he normally sat when they were traveling. "No for once I think I do like your plan, Blondie. Congrats!"
"Well, maybe you'll like this idea then," He reached into the bag and held out the chocolate bar towards her. He'd gotten enough to share since she had tagged along with him. That and he wanted to show that he could be nice when he felt like it. And he wanted a friend he could run into on his own journey from time to time. "My idea is you enjoy this."
He grinned as they reached the alleyway they'd met. Outside was the little girl, happily sitting with colored pencils drawing something. He stopped and watched her for a long moment as he turned towards Pyrrha. "About a week ago I found out about a little girl who was bed ridden after an accident. She was born with a weak heart from what I hear. I can't fix that but... I can fix the wounds caused by getting caught under a falling tree."
"Mr. Hawke!" The girl noticed him finally and came running up. She placed a hand over her chest which earned a slight frown from Hawke. But the smile quickly came back. The other hand gripped the page she was drawing on before. "I was drawing while I was waiting for you to come back!"
"I was seeing this," Hawke nodded and held up the bag. "I did get the chocolate. Your favorite kind too."
"Yay!" She cheered before turning to look at Pyrrha and Bloo. She stared up in innocent confusion before pointing at her. "Who's she? Is she your sister?"
Post by Pyrrha Drakos on Sept 29, 2015 2:35:00 GMT
Pyrrha gladly took the chocolate. "Alright, you're officially forgiven for back when we met," she nodded as she opened and started eating it almost immediately. Being the naive romantic she was, she firmly believed chocolate was one of those things that made one happy in life, especially if it was given by someone for romantic reasons... though that part wasn't the case here. Fortunately, her believing it sort of led to it being true, most of the time anyway. At least where she was involved. She broke off a piece and handed it to Bloo, who shook his head. "What? You only like the chocolate back home?" She stuck her tongue out and ate the piece she'd tried to give him without hesitation. "Your loss, gecko."
She stopped when the little girl appeared to be running to Hawke to show him a picture. Hawke handed her the chocolate, but the girl was already distracted by Pyrrha's presence. Was Pyrrha Hawke's sister? "Psh, no!" Pyrrha stepped away from Hawke, but only one step. "We're just ah, friends." She'd said it mostly for the girl's benefit, but Hawke might be one of the two people she'd actually had a pleasant time with for any length of time since coming to the country, so it wasn't too far off from the truth. "None of my brothers have ponytails," she stuck out her tongue teasingly at the blond boy. "I see he's good with most girls though. He knows the secret of chocolate," she grinned at the child. She hadn't interacted with anyone this young since she left home; and it was her cousin's daughter to boot. So really, this was the first little girl she'd talked to not in her family, so that was new.
Last Edit: Sept 29, 2015 2:35:10 GMT by Pyrrha Drakos
